Every morning before school, Flick says, Be good, Benson. You stay and mind the house. NO CHASING! But as soon as Flick waves goodbye…
Flicks dog Benson is a very good boy… or so Flick thinks. When Flick leaves for school, she tells him, Stay, Benson!. Instead, Benson races out the front door and chases a cat into the back garden, over the fence and into the park, where he chases a squirrel. A ball catches his eye and he follows it into the pond and then he runs, dripping wet, through the middle of a picnic lunch, stealing a sausage! The picnickers shout GO HOME, BENSON!. He races back across town, and arrives home just as Flick returns from school. Have you been a good boy, Benson? Did you stay?

Only the reader really knows what Benson, the naughty dog, has been doing all day